Either Way

Reality programming is taking another leap towards the coliseum this month with the controversial airing of FOX's Who's Your Daddy?

Fox's website describes it thusly:
WHO'S YOUR DADDY? provides a woman, who was given up for adoption as an infant, with an extraordinary opportunity to meet the birth father who also has been searching for her. But wait, there's a twist. Before meeting her dad, the young woman will be presented with eight men, all claiming to be her father, and she must determine which one really is. And to keep her real dad from revealing himself from the start, there is $100,000 at stake for his daughter. She will have opportunities to interview and observe the men, narrowing the field. If she guesses right, the prize will be hers. If she guesses wrong, the imposter will win the money. Either way, daughter and father will be reunited on the dramatic and emotional special WHO'S YOUR DADDY?

Yes, and what a reunion it will be. One way a father and daugher enthusiastically reunite, feel really good about themselves, and win a lot of money. The other way the two people feel like crap, stay poor, and have to awkwardly deal with that whole, "No, I just thought that other guy might be my Dad, I didn't like him better or anything. I was really hoping it would be you" thing.

Either way, it's good TV!

Here's another good idea - PREGNANT PAUSE
Six pregnant women live in a house together awaiting the glorious day they'll each become mothers. But wait, there's a twist. The mother who keeps her baby inside her the longest and gives birth last gets to keep her baby. The other mothers win a million dollars and their babies get auctioned on Ebay. Either way, there's plenty of babies and money for everybody!

Okay, I got one more. It's called OH NO! JEW! DON'T!
An actual nazi is about to kill a Jew for no good reason unless YOU guess which potential victim is actually Jewish and save him. But wait, there's a twist. Save the Jew and you both win $100,000, but the nazi kills the Jew anyway and also kills you for trying to help a Semite. Either way, a Jew is dead!

It feels good to start 2005 with a couple of billion-dollar ideas.